Important Quotes

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About George:
  • "You didn't do anything, you never do anything" -Martha, about George
  • "I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger" -Martha, about George
    • Martha is just happy George is finally showing her some emotion, even if it is negative.
  • "George … is and old bog in the History Department." -Martha
  • "Georgie boy didn't have the stuff … he wasn't particularly…aggressive. In fact he was … A great…big…fat…FLOP!" -Martha
  • "There is only one man who has ever…made me happy. … George; my husband." -Martha
  • "George who is good to me, and whom I revile … who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving me and must be punished for it." -Martha

Power:
  • "I said, make me a drink." -Martha
    Well, I don't suppose a nightcap'd kill either on of us…" George

Games:
  • "The game is over"- George
  • "We've gotta have a game" -George
  • "Humiliate the Host" "Get the Guests" "Hump the Hostess" and "Bringing up Baby" -Game titles from George
  • "Who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them" -Martha, about George
Discontent:
  • "She's discontent" -Martha
    • This is Martha's first moment of vulnerability
  • "There are easier things than being married to the daughter of the president of that university" -George
    "For some men it would be the chance of a life time." -Martha
  • "I sat there at Daddy's party, and … I watched you sitting there, and I watched the younger men around you, the men who were going to go somewhere. … and you weren't there! … It finally snapped!" -Martha
Infidelity:
  • "Musical beds is the faculty sport around here." -George
  • "I wouldn't conceive with anyone but you [George] …you know that, baby." -Martha

Alcohol:
  • "Make me another drink…lover." -Martha
    "My God, you can swill it down, can't you?" -George
  • "I'll tote you gin bottles out after midnight so no one'll see" -George
    • If George is so against Martha's drinking habits, then why does he seem to accommodate her?
  • "We take our tears, and we put 'em in the icebox, in the goddamn ice trays ... until they're frozen…and then…we put them…in our…drinks" -Martha
  • "You [Nick] just stay where you are. Make my hubby a drink" -Martha
    • Martha has demoted Nick to the status of "houseboy", and she makes it even worse by having him serve George as well as her.

Illusion:
  • "We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, … When you get down to bone … There's something inside the bone…the marrow…and that's what you gotta get at." -George
  • "The one thing in this whole sinking world that I am sure of is my … chromosomal partnership in the…creation of our…blond-eyed, blue-haired…son" -George
  • "You're all crazy: nuts." -Nick
    "Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads" -Martha
  • "Can I get you a drink, Martha? Why, thank you, George; that's very kind of you. No, Martha, no; why I'd do anything for you" - Martha
  • "Truth and illusion, George; you don't know the difference." -Martha
    "No, but we must carry on as though we did." -George
  • "We got a telegram; there was a car accident, and he's dead. POUF!" -George